The Groundbreaking Science of Forensic Linguistics: Solving Crimes by Analyzing Language

One of the foremost language detectives in the country” is how the New Yorker magazine describes Prof. Robert Leonard, Director of Hofstra University’s Forensic Linguistics Program. Join him as he discusses his own cases in The Groundbreaking Science of Forensic Linguistics: Solving Crimes by Analyzing Language — a fast, eye-opening webinar on how expert language analysis can be a vital investigative tool. Leonard, Senior Consultant to the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s Advanced Research “Linguistic Fingerprint” project has worked over 1500 cases and consulted on everything from organized crime, kidnappings, counterterrorism, trademark, plagiarism, and serial killers, for the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit, Joint Terrorism Task Forces, British Intelligence Services, NYPD Murder Investigators Training, RCMP’s Peloton de Protection du Premier Ministre, NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force, Apple, Facebook, and the Prime Minister of Canada. He also runs the Hofstra Death Penalty Justice Project, unique in the world, in which teams of faculty and students—graduate and advanced undergraduate—work together to reanalyze language evidence--a confession, recorded conversation, or interrogation—that was crucial to a conviction and sentence of death.